Interventions to promote cycling: systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine what interventions are effective in promoting cycling, the size of the effects of interventions, and evidence of any associated benefits on overall physical activity or anthropometric measures.

Design

Systematic review.

Data sources

Published and unpublished reports in any language identified by searching 13 electronic databases, websites, reference lists, and existing systematic reviews, and papers identified by experts in the field. Review methods Controlled "before and after" experimental or observational studies of the effect of any type of intervention on cycling behaviour measured at either individual or population level.

Results

Twenty five studies (of which two were randomised controlled trials) from seven countries were included

SUBMITTER: Yang L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2957539 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature